lossyWAV 1.5.0 Development
Reply #23 –
I'm not sure I understand the point of using lossyWAV with anything besides FLAC
I also see the usefulness only with FLAC. FLAC usage is the big plus.
The fact that FLAC is the most popular lossless project doesn't mean that there are no other lossless codecs to choose from.
Let me remind you gentlemans that at some point of TAK development there were two codecs inside the TAK - default and another one specially tuned for LossyWav processed files.
Here is the little test.
Coldcut - Let Us Play (1997)
Used as image, 786 235 874 bytes, LossyWav 1.4.0 -q S
enc.size enc.time enc.mem
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flac 1.3.1 -8 --blocksize=512 241 393 727 38.093s 13MB
takc 2.1.0 Beta3b -e -p4m -tn4 -cLW 215 280 441 29.765s 5MB
So TAK gives 10.8% better compression, takes less memory and runs 21.9% faster. So I can't even imagine a hypothetical situation where I should stick with FLAC for LossyWav files.